My reception of Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is surely influenced by having blundered into the wrong theatre. Have you heard that theatre is dead? You will not […]
Thank goodness, I took a course in Southwestern Mystery and Myth in graduate school, or I would have no idea what was going on in Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos’ The Hall of Final […]
Almost everyone remembers the nursery rhyme, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.” But what would happen if Rapunzel had to sheer off her braids because she had head lice? So begins […]
With Aaron Sorkin’s drama exploring one challenging week in the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos and the Amy Poehler directed documentary, Lucy and Desi (both currently streaming on Amazon Prime), the breakthrough […]
After one of the opening performances of Detained at the Fountain Theatre last week, one of the audience members turned to her friend and said, “All they had to do was follow […]
“A Bastard Immigrant, son of a whore” — this is the unflattering but accurate description of one of this country’s most brilliant founders, Alexander Hamilton, who became the nation’s first […]
How fitting that Singing Revolution: the Musical, onstage at the Broadwater in Hollywood, appears as the world holds its collective breath while Vladimir Putin plays cat and mouse with Ukraine, once part […]
Something Rotten is a quintessential musical, reminiscent of the glory days about, of all people, Shakespeare, playing at Thousand Oaks’ massive Kavli Theatre in the BofA Performing Arts Center for the […]
We Need to Talk About Cosby is a four-part docuseries directed by W. Kamau Bell (who also proves to be a probing and effective interviewer); it’s currently streaming on Showtime. Early […]
If you loved Arsenic and Old Lace, you’ll recognize the similarities to John Strysik’s new play, Death, With Benefits. One can see the bare bones of an hilarious romp in Strysik’s comedy, but, […]
